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Hanoverian to Windsor Consorts Power, Inﬂ uence, and Dynasty Edited by Aidan Norrie · Carolyn Harris J.L. Laynesmith · Danna R. Messer Elena Woodacre Queenship and Power Series Editors Charles E. Beem University of North Carolina Pembroke, NC, USA Carole Levin University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE, USA This series focuses on works specializing in gender analysis, women’s studies, literary interpretation, and cultural, political, constitutional, and diplo- matic history. It aims to broaden our understanding of the strategies that queens—both consorts and regnants, as well as female regents—pursued in order to wield political power within the structures of male- dominant soci- eties. The works describe queenship in Europe as well as many other parts of the world, including East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Islamic civilization. Aidan Norrie • Carolyn Harris J.L. Laynesmith • Danna R. Messer Elena Woodacre Editors Hanoverian to Windsor Consorts Power, Influence, and Dynasty Editors Aidan Norrie Carolyn Harris University Campus North Lincolnshire University of Toronto England, UK Toronto, ON, Canada J.L. Laynesmith Danna R. Messer University of Reading York, UK Reading, UK Elena Woodacre University of Winchester Winchester, UK ISSN 2730-938X ISSN 2730-9398 (electronic) Queenship and Power ISBN 978-3-031-12828-8 ISBN 978-3-031-12829-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12829-5 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover Image by: Daniel Smith at Aspect Design This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland A cknowledgements This volume and the other volumes in the English Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty series would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of all the editors and contributors. Thank you to Aidan Norrie for inviting me to become one of the co-editors for these volumes and for their invaluable contribution to the editing and develop- ment of these volumes, and to my co-editors Elena Woodacre, Danna Messer, and Joanna Laynesmith. I am grateful for the extraordinary efforts of all the contributors who researched and wrote their chapters during the difficult circumstances of 2020 and 2021. Thank you too to the staff of the University of Toronto Libraries and Toronto Public Library for your assistance in accessing research materials during the challenging circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you also to the editors and staff at Palgrave Macmillan and Springer Nature for their assistance in preparing the manuscript for publication. Thank you to my parents, Richard and Sue Harris, and my husband Bruce Harpham, for their love, support, and encouragement. Carolyn Harris This project has been supported by a number of grants and awards. We gratefully acknowledge the Dr Greg Wells Research Award provided by the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick, which covered the costs of producing the family trees for this volume. The Department of History at the University of Warwick employed Joshua Baumring-Gledhill as a research assistant for the project, and the Institute vii viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick funded the project’s incomparable editorial assistant, Luke Holloway, and we are grateful for this support. I also thank my valiant and indefatigable co-editors, who enthusiasti- cally agreed to work with me on this project (a project that ended up consuming their lives for a significant amount of time), and whose insight, patience, and camaraderie have made this project much stronger than it might otherwise have been. Aidan Norrie Praise for Hanoverian to Windsor Consorts “Spanning Hanoverians to Windsors, this fascinating and insightful collection reveals the creative agency of consorts. These finely crafted studies explore the consorts’ responses to surprisingly long-lasting assumptions about a consort’s identity and functions. Crucially, this compelling volume shows how access to an increasingly global stage and emerging forms of media opened up significant dynamics of power for consorts and established new mechanisms for both oppor- tunity and oppression.” —Susan Broomhall, Australian Catholic University